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Donald Trump strategist pens open letter

Katie Couric speaks with Stephanie Cegielski who once supported and worked for Donald Trump but is now warning US voters to be very wary.

Stephanie Cegielski implores Trump's fans to see that the real Donald Trump behind the public character is a dangerous know-nothing who cares only about himself.

Ms Cegielski said she had fallen in love with the idea of "the protest candidate who was not bought by corporations and could straight-talk his way to a new debate for America". So she signed up a year ago as communications director of the Make America Great Again Super PAC, an independent fundraising committee promoting Trump's candidacy.

A senior strategist for Donald Trump's campaign Stephanie Cegielski has resigned in disgust, saying the campaign is "poised to do irreparable damage to this country". Photo: xojane

Back then, the most that "Team Trump" sought to do was poll in double digits and come second in the delegate count, she revealed in an open letter to his fans published on xojane, an American online magazine geared towards women.

But the modest plan has since "nightmarishly morphed into a charade that is poised to do irreparable damage to this country if we do not stop this campaign in its tracks," Ms Cegielski wrote

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Every day, she said, she woke to a buzzing phone and a shaking head because Trump had said something politically incorrect the night before.

But then something "absolutely unexpected" happened: every outrageous Trumpism caused a jump in the polls. No other candidate perceived as he did "the anger and outrage of the 'silent majority' of Americans who are not a part of the liberal elite".

Donald Trump: not up to the job of presidents, according to Stephanie Cegielski. Photo: Wilfredo Lee

Trump is an "intelligent, charismatic man" with an admirable ability to ignore briefing notes and speak off-the-cuff.

"But saying this qualifies him to be president is like saying that Seth Rogen is suited to be president," Ms Cegielski writes.

"It makes him an extraordinary improviser, not an extraordinary presidential candidate."

Most frightening of all is that "the man does not know policy, nor does he have the humility to admit what he does not know" she says. According to Ms Cegielski he made no effort to come to grips with issues of substance in the campaign.

The man does not know policy, nor does he have the humility to admit what he does not know.

Stephanie Cegielski

"I am now taking full responsibility for helping create this monster," she wrote.

Ms Cegielski resigned in disgust over Trump's tweet in response to the Easter weekend bombings in Lahore:

Another radical Islamic attack, this time in Pakistan, targeting Christian women & children. At least 67 dead,400 injured. I alone can solve

She asks readers to take a moment to appreciate the "ridiculous, cartoonish, almost childish arrogance" of saying that he alone can solve the problem.

"This is not how foreign policy works. For anyone. Ever." Cegielski writes.

"Superhero powers where "I alone can solve" problems are not real. They do not exist for Batman, for Superman, for Wrestlemania and definitely not for Donald Trump."

"The hard truth is: Trump only cares about Trump," the disaffected strategist writes. She warns the disaffected voters who thought Trump could be their voice: "He is not your voice. He is only Trump's voice".

She implores those who would vote for him to give Trump the biggest gift possible: "Stop supporting him."

"He doesn't want the White House. He just wants to be able to say that he could have run the White House."